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dissatisfaction

[dis-sat-is-fak-shuhn, dis-sat-] / ˌdɪs sæt ɪsˈfæk ʃən, dɪsˌsæt- /


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"The impact on the American consumer has gone up tremendously," he said, adding that there was growing dissatisfaction in the rural, normally Republican area of Virginia where he lives.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

What’s more, most agreed that these market distortions are the main reason for rising public dissatisfaction with the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Iran continues to face high very inflation rates, unemployment, economic hardship and public dissatisfaction.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

There is little margin for error or customer dissatisfaction, as disgruntled viewers will tune out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2023

It is not surprising, according to Vásquez, because “places in conflict produce fiction: Fiction is where all the anxieties and discontent, the dissatisfactions and fears of a society, filter down.”

From New York Times Jul. 22, 2021

Haemin is especially eloquent on life’s smaller dissatisfactions, and how they can sometimes be trickier to deal with than the bigger, more dramatic ones.

From The Guardian Jan. 12, 2019

The administrative job’s innate dissatisfactions are written between the lines of these books.

From Slate Aug. 16, 2018

Unacknowledged dissatisfactions of her own sharpened her feeling about it.

From Fidelity A Novel by Susan Glaspell




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